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waggiedog · Jun 18, 2014, 04:45 PM

Hello dear thickntired. Oh your post made for interesting thinking! I have had serious mental health issues for the last 33 years, they were long dark horrible years and not just for me but for my poor family. I was hospitalised a number of times but I was given the nice label of ''attention seeker'' and ''time waster'' .................... fast forward to under four years ago and I was finially diagnosed with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) a nasty little number which is the most destructive misunderstood disorder. OK, BPD wasn't really mainstream back those 33 years ago but I'm very glad and relieved that it is known about today. There's no ''cure'' or even meds specially for it but DBT and a programme called S.T.E.P.P.S helps a great deal. In my group therapy I'm trying to guide the very young people who are in turmoil as I once was. I still have severe eating disorders and suicidal depressions but on the whole I'm better off having reasearched everything about BPD! HUGS and LOVES, as ever. XXXXXXXXXXX